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Iranian foreign ministry called Trump’s order ‘an obvious insult to the Islamic world’

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Asa Fitch in Dubai and

Aresu Eqbali in Tehran

Updated Jan. 28, 2017 3:22 p.m. ET

Iran vowed Saturday to respond to President Donald Trump’s suspension of U.S. visas for citizens of seven countries including the Islamic Republic, as the president’s new executive order tripped up travelers across the Middle East.

Iran’s Foreign Ministry, in a statement carried by the official Islamic Republic News Agency, called Mr. Trump’s immigration ban “an obvious insult to the Islamic world and especially the great Iranian...